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No. 456,040. Patented-July 14, 1891.

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CHRISTOPH F. KURZ, or NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNO-R TO MATHAUSSOHMICKLE, or NEW YORK, N. Y.

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FASTENING FOR TRAVELING-BAGS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 456,040, dated July 14,1891.

" Application filed March 12, 1891- Serial No. 384,723. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHRISTOPH F. KURZ, a citizen of the United States,residing at Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Looks for Traveling-Bags, ofwhich the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a lock which is intended particularly fortraveling-bags, but which may also be used for other articles.

The peculiar and novel construction of my lock is pointed out in thefollowing specification and claims, and illustrated in the accom panyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 represents a longitudinal vertical sectionof the look when closed, the plane of section being indicated by theline '0 '0, Fig. 3. Fig. 2 is a similar section when the lock is opened,the plane of section being indicated by the line to 10, Fig. 4. Fig. 3isahori- Fig. 4 is a similar section in the plane y 3 Fig. 2. Fig. 5 isa transverse section in the plane 2 z,

Fig. 1.

In the drawings, the letter A designates the case which incloses thelocking mechanism. This case consists of the cap CL and the bottom plateb, which is secured in the cap by solder or any other suitable means.Into this cap is fitted a slide B, the tail c of which is .guided in aslotted lug d, which rises from the bottom plate b. A spring cl has atendency to throw the slide B into the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3,and from the front end of said slide projects a finger-piece 6 through aslot f in the cap a, so that by pressing against this finger-piece theslide can be pushed back againstthe action of the spring d. The backwardmovement of the slide is limited bya stop g, which rises fromthe bottomplate I) and extends into an opening It formed in the body of the slide.Fromthe rear edge of this openingextends the bolt 1;, which engages thehasp O, as will be presently explained. The hasp C is provided with aneye 7', the bottom edge of which is beveled, Fig.

l, and said hasp is connected by a link D, Fig. 5, with a bracket E,which is firmly secured to the inner jaw F of a traveling-bag frame orto any equivalent part of the article to be locked. The connectionsbetween the hasp, the link, and the bracket are made by pivots it it, sothat said hasp canbe brought into its locking position shown in fulllines in Fig. 5, or that it can swing to its unlocking position shown indotted lines in said figure.

From the bottom plate I) of the case A projects atubular nipple Z,Whichforms the guide for a pin m. This pin'is subjected to the action of aspring n, which has a tendency to throw the same up to the positionshown in in Fig. 2, the upward movement of said pin being limited by adepression 0 formed in the top of the case A. When the locking mechanismis open, as shown in Figs. 2 and 4, and it is desired to lock thetraveling-bag or other article to which my lock is attached, the hasp Ois swung up from the position shown 'in dotted lines in Fig. 5, and whenthe eye j of the hasp is depressed into the opening 19 in the top of thecase A it forces the pin m downward to the position shown in Fig. 1, andas soon as the opening in the eye of the hasp comes in line with thebolt dot the slide B this slide is driven forward to the position shownin Figs. 1 and 2, and the bolt '6 looks the hasp against the action ofthe spring 91., which acts. upon the pin m. At the same this pin isdepressed and its lower end is caused to extend into an eye (1 formed ina bracket G, which is secured to the jaw F, so as to produce anadditional lockin g effect. In order to open thelocking mechanism, theslide 13 is forced back from the position shown in Figs. 1 and 3 to thatshown in Figs. 2 and 4, and as soon as the bolt t' of the slide clearsthe eye j of the hasp the pin mis driven upward by the spring at, thehasp is thrown out to the position shown in dotted lines in Fig.

5, and the pin m forms a stop which retains when released from thedetaining-pin. It will be observed that the case A, with its lookingmechanism, is attached to the outer jaw H of the bag-frame, while thehasp and the bracket G are attached to the inner jaw F.

What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, in a bag-lock, of a slotted lock-case, a hasp,aspring-actuated slide having a hasp-engaging bolt and a fin ger-pieceprojecting through the slot in the look-case, and a spring-actuated haspejecting or lifting pin, substantially as described.

2. The combination, with the case A, of the slide 13, the spring actingon said slide, the bolt i and finger-piece 9, carried by said slide, thehasp C and its link connection D, and the OHRISTOPH F. KURZ.

Vitnesses:

WM. 0. HAUFF, E. F. KASTENHUBER.

